HOW DID WE GET HERE? THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE U.S. IMMIGRATION DEBATE A one-day conference sponsored by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility of the New School for Social Research, and the Department of Historical Studies of Eugene Lang College, The New School. FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM The New School
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School are pleased to present the 34th Social Research conference, “The Invasive Other,” on Wednesday, April 20, and Thursday April 21, at The New School in New York City. This conference is grounded in the premise that while seemingly of different orders, invasive others — whether
As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. His books (among themJust and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company
ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 4pm-6pm*, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the
Engin Isin, Professor of Politics at The Open University, is our first speaker in the Spring Citizenship in Movement Working Group Lecture Series at the New School for Social Research. His lecture is entitled, Citizenship’s Empire. Following on Citizens Without Frontiers, where Isin explored cross-border solidarities as the foundations of an incipient international citizenship, in Citizenship’s Empire, Isin explores the
Renée de la Torre has a Masters degree in communication studies, from ITESO, and a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Social Anthropology, from the University of Guadalajara. Since 1993 she has been working as a Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at CIESAS (Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology), in Guadalajara, Mexico.
ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: HAGAR KOTEF, “Freedom as Violence, or: a (Post-)Colonial Account of Mobility, Homelessness, and Political Belonging. December 2nd, 6pm to 8pm, Wolff Conference Room, 1103. Albert and Vera List Academic Center, 6 East 16 Street 11th Floor, New York City Patterns of mobility and immobility (real or imagined) can be mapped
The Citizenship in Movement Working Group and the Sociology Department present their final speaker of the semester, Linda Bosniak, with her talk, “Wrongs, Rights and Irregular Migrants.” Linda Bosniak is Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is spending the 2015-2016 year as a Member-Scholar of the Institute For Advanced Study,
MEXICO DIALOGUES PUBLIC SECTOR, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND ACADEMIA SERIES Mexico Dialogues brings public officials with leading roles in shaping the social development of their country, together with highly committed scholars and civil society activists who will discuss the most relevant issues related to Mexico’s current agenda. The event will have four panels: Mexico’s International Agenda;
Diaspora Disneys: Spectacular Homes and Homelands in the Global Age with Shelley Salamensky The Bark Room (Orientation Room), Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 2 West 13th Street, Room M101, New York, NY 10011 In our increasingly mobile, global age, “home” may be something less grounded than acted out — yet no less real. Exploring bizarre
